There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.